Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...News Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). When the United Mine Workers threatened to close four of six union hospitals in eastern Kentucky, violence resulted in the coal fields. This program records it. Repeat...
Four Is More than Ten. At the core of the dispute are the "work rules" that the operating rail unions got from management in the course of three generations of strikes, strike threats and negotiations. Technology has outmoded many of the rules. Firemen used to shovel coal on steam locomotives; on today's diesels a fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that...
Among them: the Federal Firearms Act, the Atomic Energy Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Automobile Information Disclosure Act, the Communications Acts, the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, the False Branding or Marking Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Plant Quarantine Act and the Securities Exchange...
...took over a one-horse power company and built it into a nationwide network that has electrified 76% of all Irish farms. The country had no oil and little coal, but Lemass found an inexhaustible source of industrial fuel in its peat bogs, where huge machines now cut turf that a busy, state-owned processing plant turns into inexpensive, slow-burning briquettes. After a long political wrangle, he got Ireland's state-owned airline off the ground, and has watched happily as Aer Lingus' shamrock-painted planes have made it one of the few government airlines to turn...
Flute & Toy Soldiers. Next, Love battled the railroads, whose rates on coal had risen so high that coal cost 8? a ton more to haul than to mine. Consol built a 108-mile pipeline across Ohio to a Cleveland electric plant, shipped a slurry of coal and water at $1 a ton less than railroad rates. The Eastern railroads got the hint, and last March dropped their coal rates by one-third (TIME, April...